The EU’s externalization of migration policies in Morocco, which aimed to control migration, has been reinforcing authoritarianism rather than promoting democracy. These policies empower ruling elites...
As of today, 141 countries have adopted voting laws that allow emigrants to vote in homeland elections, a significant increase from the mere 38 countries three decades ago. This seemingly paradoxical trend raises an intriguing question: why would autocratic...
Migration’s impact goes beyond economic development, influencing politics as well. In 2012, Borsa, a small Romanian town, underwent a transformative political shift led by its diaspora....
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed several challenges for conducting research in social sciences, including ethical issues. While all humans share inherent physical and mental vulnerability, factors like poverty, racial...
Researchers from UAB and UNED have analysed the causes of conflicts in the Spanish Parliament, focusing on the psychological characteristics of the politicians. The study shows that there are relationships between...
Joan C. Tronto, emeritus professor of the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota, is one of the greatest exponents of the ethics of care and democracy. Numerous disciplines draw on her feminist reflections to carry out critical analyses of the social, political and economic...
On 9 October 1963, two thousand people were swallowed up by a colossal wave of water and mud unleashed by a gigantic landslide that sank the dam in the Vajont basin, Italy. A tragedy that the UNESCO would...
UAB’s researchers had analyzed diverse social innovation projects in early childhood education and care (childminders, care groups and free-education nurseries) to study if they benefit women’s...
Transhumanism is a delicate subject that confronts ethics with the use of technological development to expand the natural capacities of human beings. What makes the implantation of a pacemaker different from that of a bionic eye? In this article Marc Abraham Puig, from the...
The lawyer and journalist Caddy Adzuba has stood out as an international speaker of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially with regard to the situation of women, victims of gender violence related to DRC war. She is a founding member of the network "A loudspeaker for silence" and is...
